Made of Caffeine and Anxiety

Podcast sideblog by only the loosest of definitions. Ace/Quinn (they/he). Follows from @gotanaceupmysleeve. Icon art by @disasterscenario. Prompts are open

[rylandsgrace]

Doctor who -  Wild Blue Yonder

[radioactiveshitstorm]

Wild Blue Yonder (2023)

[buildoblivion]

cosmic horror who my beloved

[alive-and-burning-deactivated20]

the signs they have in hell in good omens r so silly

[prokopetz]

I'm pretty on board with the headcanon that what Link gets out of being the bearer of the Triforce of Courage is the power of being a video game protagonist, but I genuinely can't decide whether it would be funnier if he's 100% aware of how much bullshit his everything is, or if he honestly doesn't realise.

[prokopetz]

Like, does he know that normal people can't recover from life-threatening wounds in a matter of minutes by drinking a jar of really good soup? It's the sort of thing you'd assume would be obvious just from being around other human beings, and yet.

[prokopetz]

The fact that Breath of the Wild Link's laser-parrying trick is something that only works for him is made explicit in the dialogue, so presumably he's at least aware that it's exceptional, but does he understand that it's complete bullshit, or does he think it's just a skill issue?

[raguna-blade]

Link: No, that's fair, if I fuck up the timing I have to eat a laser to the chest and that is, understandably, extremely painful, so I don't recommend you practice this unless you're really confident about your timing.

Random Guard:...Link people die if they take those to the chest.

Link: I mean you should be angling yourself, i'm not saying to just let your sternum take a whole blow, to just take it square, that's a terrible idea

Random Guard: It explodes rocks.

Link: You have armor for a reason my guy.

Random Guard: ...

Link: If it helps, drinking some fire resist potions has proven to be moderately effective for me.

Random Guard: The Ones you apply to your skin?

Link: What

Random Guard: What

[lmpressionismus]

i tried to hop onto this meme trend

[lmpressionismus]

[lmpressionismus]

imagine comprehending what this is. joke of a field where all graphics look like arcane sigils

[sixofclovers]

The Knight and her Princess

[epilepticsaints]

[finelythreadedsky]

the myth of persephone is about the trauma of the separation of mothers and daughters by marriage and this is the hill i will die on

[finelythreadedsky]

To be clear I’m not against retellings that reinterpret the relationship between Hades and Persephone and present it as consensual and healthy– I do think there’s something incredibly powerful about looking at a story that’s been passed down to us through millennia about a girl being kidnapped and raped and saying “no. No, that’s not the kind of story I want to hear, that’s not the kind of story I want to tell, and that’s certainly not the kind of story I want my daughters to grow up on.” (Although I think it’s disappointing that these are now the only sorts of Persephone retellings we get, and at this point it’s really not a particularly revolutionary take, given how often it’s been done.)

But I also think we do a great disservice to the women of the ancient world by not remembering how this story, in that form, mirrored their very real pain. I’ve been thinking recently about how we can tell that women participated in the formation of their culture’s folklore because women’s trauma is embedded in it. (In Greek terms, the stories of Leto and Alcmene very clearly come out of women’s traumatic experiences with childbirth, and there are elements of women’s traumatic experiences of sexual assault embedded in, for example, the stories of Daphne or Callisto or Artemis and Actaeon) And the story of Persephone comes out of women’s experiences of being permanently separated from their mothers and daughters at marriage. (See also this post from @gardenvarietycrime.​)

For an ancient woman sending her daughter off to be married, knowing that she will see her only rarely and that the odds of death in childbirth were high, Persephone meant something. For an ancient girl leaving her mother and her entire world for a man she may never have met knowing the same, Persephone meant something. I do think a lot of the conflation of death and marriage in the ancient world comes out of this: that a girl is dead to her mother and her family whether she leaves them to go to a husband’s house or the house of Hades. Maybe it’s a consolation to know that someone else has done this before you, to know that a goddess once lost her daughter and a goddess once lost her mother the same way you are losing yours. And that they survived it.

Essentially I think we need to remember that this myth (like all myths and all folklore) is not necessarily entirely the product of men, that women’s voices and women’s trauma remain embedded in it despite all of our written sources being men’s tellings of the story. And when we retell it we risk losing those voices if we are not careful and if we dismiss the myth as it survives today as solely men’s version of the story.

[selkiefinalist]

when will the nhl measure meaningful stats like UOW (unprompted on-ice wipeouts) ASBPS (average sticks broken per shift) per-game GID (got it deep) PIMGAW (penalty minutes gotten away with) etc

[garbage-empress]

It's bullshit that we even get scurvy. Most mammals synthesize their own Vitamin C, except apes and a handful of other mammals. We had evolutionary ancestors with so much access to fruit they didn't even notice when a mutation broke Vitamin C synthesis and now we'll die without it like a bunch of fucking chumps.

[garbage-empress]

You know what else can't synthesize Vitamin C? Guinea pigs. We're no better than a bunch of fuzzy cylinders.

[foone]

Donate to my kickstarter. We're gonna crispr that shit right back in, and finally be free from the tyranny of Big Orange

[crepuscol]

Some less terrible, relatively fun parts of today's updates:

Arthur and Quincey show up in pajamas and slippers and there's no mention of them getting into proper clothes. The breaking in into the Harker's room, Quincey running outside, Arthur running up and down the house, they do all this still in pajamas and slippers.

Van Helsing, when they break open Mina's door, stumbles inside and falls on his face.

Imagine video game coin sounds when Jonathan slits Drac's coat and the gold coins fall out.

Drac jumps out of the window, the boys don't see his landing but let's pretend he also landed on his face.

Jonathan climbs out of the broken window to go after Drac. Castle wall, old mansion, nothing stops this man.

Add more if you want :)

[m0nomercy]

dnd night

[natalieironside]

Steve Harringron in season 1 of Stranger Things is the most character. He did some bad stuff and immediately went "Aw, beans. That wasn't cool. I better go apologize" at which point The Plot he'd been blissfully unaware of for the entire show immediately tried to eat him.

[natalieironside]

Steve: "Hey Nancy I wanted to apologize for--"

Nancy, cocking a gun: "Wall's haunted."

[classically-lit-memes4u]

defend my thesis? like with a sword?

[kmtar]

[coralreefskim]

siblings

[ID: Two digital illustrations featuring characters from Ace Attorney.

1. Iris and Dahlia Hawthorne. Iris is sitting, hunched into herself. One hand is clutching onto her elbow, and the other is pulling up her hood, as if to cover her face. She is staring at the viewer in horror. Dahlia is kneeling behind her, parasol on her shoulder. She is smiling with her red eyes almost closed, combing Iris’s hair. The part of Iris’s hair Dahlia is combing is dyed the same red as her own hair. There are 3 white butterflies flying around them. They are surrounded by red dahlias. The background is solid green.

2. Klavier Gavin and Kristoph Gavin. Klavier is sitting with his guitar on his lap. Kristoph is behind him, covering his eyes and whispering into his ear. There is a skull scar on the back of Kristoph’s hand. Kristoph is glancing off to the side, eyes a vibrant purple. The background is a solid yellowish green.

End ID.]